well, i won on two races at the belmont stakes. this would be more exciting if the first race i won had not been one where a horse *died*. sad. and women actually do wear the big floppy straw hats and long dresses to the races, i was just joking in my last post. aside from that, not much going on. making up a press...
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just finished dracula. so amazing! i had completely forgotten how it ended, saw the movie but only remembered enough to picture tom waits as renfield. my poor boy is working late and not yet home, even though we have to get up early for the races tomorrow. i wish i had a going-to-the-races dress like my namesake-as-eliza-doolitlle. i also wish i'd win big playing the...
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crispy:
Hey - hitting you off of the baseball thread, but just have to say that I have never read Dracula, but have always wanted to.
Sadly enough, I think I actually own it somewhere.
Too many books ... too little time.
Sadly enough, I think I actually own it somewhere.
Too many books ... too little time.
it's been raining a lot yesterday and today. last night was better -- lightning where the clouds light up and lots of thunder. today was more drippy. i'm going to the belmont stakes on saturday: anybody have any tips on horses? still trying to figure out dracula and how it fits into the literary scheme of things. i keep getting distracted by all of the...
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grendel:
Do you ever find, as an English grad student, that trying to unearth the symbolism in books ever sort of sucks out their soul? Or do you think it just deepens your appreciation of them?
golightly:
well, there are some things i've written papers on thaat i don't care if i *never* read again. but mostly i think thinking about books deepens your relationship to them. and i work more on historical stuff, so it's not just "what does it mean?", more like "what did it mean then?"
hey there--wondering how my extroversion will interact with my fear of boring people? oh well, pressing on...i'm reading dracula, and it's really good, creepy and visually neat and full of amazing details, like dracula climbing down his castle wall like spiderman (or wait, the other way around). it's an epistolary novel, meaning it's all journal entries and letters and newspaper articles put together to make...
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